My daddy uses a special shellac on this thing.
我爸爸用了特殊的虫胶清漆。
周今夜秀 However each side of these shellac discs could only play about 3 or 4 minutes of music, and record companies realized that if they wanted a longer playing record, they would need a tougher material, one that could handle smaller grooves.
而,这些虫胶光盘的每一面只能播放大约3或4分钟的音乐,唱片公司意识
,如果他们想要播放更长的时间,他们需要一种更坚韧的材料,可以承受较小的凹槽。
I got my head shellacked underneath a wig and this thing screwed on and then pins crossed over it. It was a form of torture. - Oh right, right, so it's a headache, guaranteed. - Guaranteed, a hat you cannot take off.
我的头被一顶假发盖住,把这个东西固定在
面,
别针穿过它。很折磨人。- 哦,是的,是的,这很让人头疼,肯定会这样。- 肯定疼,一顶你摘不下来的帽子。
My father, who was a businessman with no literary pretensions, wrote both a family history and a history of the family shellac business, which stayed on the same block in the middle of Manhattan for more than a hundred years.
我的父亲是一位没有文学野心的商人,他撰写了两部作品:一部是家族史, 另一部则是关于家族虫胶生意的历史,这项生意在曼哈顿中心区的同一条街
持续经营了一百多
。